Questions tagged [agreement]

in "half of the slices were eaten" the phrase "half of the slices" is clearly headed by "slices" as the verb the subject took are plural. however, "of" is a preposition which takes "the slices" as its complement, therefore I dont see how the…

Gender, at least in romance languages (but generally in many SAE languages), can be described briefly as an intrinsic lexical property of nouns that trigger an agreement in its dependents : a noun belongs to one class, and its dependents (typically…

I learned my English grammar pre-CGEL and recently learned that there is regarded as a pronoun and as the subject of the verb in constructions like the following, where the verb agrees in number with the noun that follows it: There remain traces of…